"Makin' It (TV series) Makin' It is an American sitcom starring David Naughton that aired for nine episodes on Fridays at 8:00PM on ABC from February 1 to March 23, 1979. It also aired in the United Kingdom on ITV from March 21, 1979. In 2002, ""TV Guide"" ranked it number 40 on its TV Guide's 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time list. The show was set in Passaic, New Jersey, and was about the daily life of Billy Manucci, a young man who frequented the local disco club, Inferno, at night while working at an ice cream parlor"
"John Travolta John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor, film producer, dancer, and singer. Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series ""Welcome Back, Kotter"" (1975–1979) and starring in the box office successes ""Saturday Night Fever"" (1977) and ""Grease"" (1978). His acting career declined through the 1980s, but enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s with his role in ""Pulp Fiction"" (1994), and he has since starred in films such as ""Get Shorty"", ""Broken Arrow"", ""Face/Off"", ""Swordfish"", ""Be Cool"", ""Wild Hogs"", ""Hairspray"", and ""The Taking of Pelham 123"". Travolta was nominated for"
"a character named ""The Diceman"" based on Jerry Lewis as Buddy Love from ""The Nutty Professor"" which transformed into John Travolta in ""Grease"". It took him three weeks to prepare the act. A picture of him on stage during his early sets at Pips was described: ""[Clay] In a baggy white shirt, pants rolled up to his knees and a pair of thick glasses"", with a black leather jacket underneath the shirt so he could seamlessly switch to his Travolta character when the lights went out. With his new act, Clay graduated to larger and more prestigious comedy venues including"
"steps outside his house, unprotected, and he and Gina ride off on her horse. The ""Bubble Boy"" who inspired this film, David Vetter, questioned the film's depiction of how sterile Tod's use of the spacesuit was. Vetter scoffed at the idea that Travolta's character could simply wear the space suit back into the isolator without contaminating the bubble. The film was nominated for four Emmy Awards, winning one posthumously for Hyland. Travolta's positive experiences on the film led him to request Kleiser as director when he was cast as the lead in the 1978 film ""Grease""; Kelly Ward also appeared"
"and a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of lawyer Robert Shapiro in the series. Travolta, the youngest of six children, was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey, an inner-ring suburb of Bergen County, New Jersey. His father, Salvatore Travolta (November 1912 – May 1995), was a semi-professional American football player turned tire salesman and partner in a tire company. His mother, Helen Cecilia (née Burke; January 18, 1912 – December 1978), was an actress and singer who had appeared in ""The Sunshine Sisters"", a radio vocal group, and acted and directed before becoming a high school drama and"
"teach John Travolta how to dance for his role in the late 70’s film “Saturday Night Fever”, use to go to dance clubs and watch the Lockers dance using moves created by Don somewhat 10yrs. earlier. Don and “The Lockers” appeared with some of the greatest entertainers of all time: Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Carol Burnett, Doris Day, Dinah Shore, Merv Griffin, Bill Cosby, Roger Miller, Johnny Carson, Dick Van Dyke, Aretha Franklin, John Denver, Roberta Flack, Michael Landon, Richard Pryor, Bette Midler, Donny and Marie Osmond, Howard Cosell, and Cheech & Chong. “The Lockers”"
"to get approved. Nicholson was set to play Buddusky; additional casting focused mainly on the roles of Mule and Meadows. Bud Cort met with Ashby and begged to play Meadows, but the director felt that he was not right for the role. Casting director Lynn Stalmaster gave Ashby a final selection of actors, and the two that stood out were Randy Quaid and John Travolta. As originally written, the character of Meadows was a ""helpless little guy"", but Ashby wanted to cast Quaid, who was 6'4"". He had offbeat and vulnerable qualities that Ashby wanted. Towne remembers thinking, ""There's a"
"an unknown actress at the time, and both Pacino and De Palma had argued against her casting, but Bregman fought for her inclusion. Glenn Close was the original choice for the role, while others were also considered, including Geena Davis, Carrie Fisher, Kelly McGillis, Sharon Stone, and Sigourney Weaver. Bauer got his role without even auditioning. During the audition process, casting director Alixe Gordin saw Bauer and instantly noted that he was right for the role of Manny, a judgment with which both De Palma and Bregman agreed. He was the only actual Cuban in the principal cast. John Travolta"
"for us. She loved the theater, and she was always involved with the community theater and she encouraged all of us to be in it."" Travolta married James Fridley in May 1964. Ellen and James had two children, a son, Tom Fridley (born 1965), an actor whose credits include ""Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!!"", ""Face/Off"", """", ""Summer Camp Nightmare"", """", and ""The Karate Kid"". and a daughter, Molly Allen Ritter. Molly Allen Ritter (also called Molly Allen) has been a preschool teacher, waitress, disc jockey, and actress. She wrote ""The Day Spring Wouldn't Come Out,"" a play in which"
"of Hollywood product. Tarantino is a cinematic kleptomaniac – he literally can't help himself."" Two scenes in particular have prompted discussion of the film's highly intertextual style. Many have assumed that the dance sequence at Jack Rabbit Slim's was intended as a reference to Travolta's star-making performance as Tony Manero in the epochal ""Saturday Night Fever"" (1977); Tarantino, however, credits a scene in the Jean-Luc Godard film ""Bande à part"" (1964) with the inspiration. According to the filmmaker; Everybody thinks that I wrote this scene just to have John Travolta dancing. But the scene existed before John Travolta was cast."
"Jackie Gleason and the Miami Beach Convention Center management team. In the early 1970s, Gabe Kaplan, who at that time was an unknown stand-up comedian, repeatedly pestered Barbarino for a job at the Crossway. As he had done with the Briarwood Singers, Barbarino set Kaplan up with his contacts in New York and within a year Kaplan had become a celebrity. It's possible that the character of Vinnie Barbarino from the U.S. sitcom, ""Welcome Back, Kotter"", played by John Travolta, is a tribute of sorts to Ray Barbarino from Kaplan, who was the show's star. Barry Monroe currently plays music"
"Keanu Reeves Keanu Charles Reeves ( ; born September 2, 1964) is a Canadian actor, director, producer, and musician. He gained fame for his starring role performances in several blockbuster films, including comedies from the ""Bill and Ted"" franchise (1989–1991); action thrillers ""Point Break"" (1991), ""Speed"" (1994), and the ""John Wick"" franchise; psychological thriller ""The Devil's Advocate"" (1997); supernatural thriller ""Constantine"" (2005); and science fiction/action series ""The Matrix"" (1999–2003). He has also appeared in dramatic films such as ""Dangerous Liaisons"" (1988), ""My Own Private Idaho"" (1991), and ""Little Buddha"" (1993), as well as the romantic horror ""Bram Stoker's Dracula"" (1992)."
"I've got a great idea"". Noël Coward, who played Bridger, was godfather of the director, Peter Collinson. Bridger's fellow convict and confidant, Keats, was played by Graham Payn, Coward's long-time partner. Lana Gatto was the ""nom de crédit"" of Hazel Collinson, otherwise known as Mrs. Peter Collinson. Michael Caine's brother Stanley Caine also appears as one of Croker's gang. The gang also included Robert Powell, in his first film role. Frank Kelly appears as an uncredited prison officer, also in his first film role. American distributors Paramount wanted Robert Redford to play the lead. According to a ""Making Of"" documentary,"
"which is Ti West's movie."" He added about what drew him to the project, ""[West's] approach to filmmaking, I love. He pitched me this idea and I thought it was really cool."" In March 2016, West revealed in an interview he had written the role with Hawke in mind. On March 18, 2014, ""The Hollywood Reporter"" announced that the film would star John Travolta and Ethan Hawke in main roles, with Hawke portraying the film's protagonist Paul, and Travolta portraying the Marshal Clyde Martin, who has a wooden leg. On May 22, 2014, ""Deadline Hollywood"" reported that Taissa Farmiga had"
"a whimsical nature with a pose which excels confidence, thus allowing the character to have a contrasty personality and a body language which reflects that. John Travolta was chosen to do the voice work for Bolt. Despite a history of turning down voice over offers for animated characters, he agreed to provide the voice for Bolt as he, according to the actor himself, ""indicated as the right character"". In an interview with CBS, Travolta explained that he was intrigued with Bolt's personality after reading the script. ""When I read this script and saw this character, so guileless, so kind of"
"the first episode of the final season of her talk show, Oprah Winfrey announced that she would be taking her entire studio audience on an eight-day, all-expenses-paid trip to Australia, with Travolta serving as pilot for the trip. He had helped Winfrey plan the trip for more than a year. He is the author of the book ""Propeller One-Way Night Coach"", the story of a young boy's first flight. John Travolta John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor, film producer, dancer, and singer. Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series"
"itself, but complimented Travolta's performance. Travolta and Whitaker both won a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for their performances in 1997. Whitaker also received an Image Award. In the same year the film was nominated for a Saturn Award. Travolta was nominated for an MTV Movie Award for his performance, as well as for Best Kiss with Kyra Sedgwick. Eric Clapton was nominated for his song ""Change the World"" and won an ASCAP Award and the BMI Film & TV Award. Thomas Newman also received a BMI Film & TV Award for the score. A remake, titled ""Phenomenon II"" was developed for"
"an action thriller starring Vin Diesel. He would later direct ""Be Cool"", an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel of the same name. The John Travolta vehicle was panned by critics but went on to gross over $95 million worldwide. His next film was the thriller ""Law Abiding Citizen"", starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler and written by Kurt Wimmer. The film grossed over $100 million worldwide. Gray received The Ivan Dixon Award of Achievement from the Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center and was named one of the “50 Best and Brightest African Americans Under 40” by ""Black Enterprise"" magazine."
"It (character) It is the title character of American author Stephen King's 1986 horror novel ""It"". The character is a menacing predatory entity which preys upon the children of Derry, Maine, roughly every 27 years, using a variety of powers that include the ability to shapeshift, manipulate, and go unnoticed by adults. During the course of the story, it primarily appears in the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown. King stated in a 2013 interview that he came up with the idea for Pennywise after asking himself what scared children ""more than anything else in the world"". He felt that"
"known film role is that of Frank Manero, Sr., the volatile father of Tony Manero (John Travolta) in the 1977 film ""Saturday Night Fever"". Other film credits include roles in ""No Way to Treat a Lady"" (1968), ""The Brotherhood"" (1968), ""The Don Is Dead"" (1973), ""Linda Lovelace for President"" (1975), ""The Hindenburg"" (1975), ""St. Ives"" (1976) and ""The Frisco Kid"" (1979). Val Bisoglio Val Bisoglio (born May 7, 1926) is an American character actor primarily known for his work on television. Bisoglio was born in New York City, New York. He may be best known for his recurring role as"
"that film. Pacino originally wanted to retain the period piece aspect, but realized that because of its melodramatic nature it would be difficult to accomplish. Sidney Lumet became attached as the director, developing the idea for Montana to be Cuban arriving in America during the Mariel boatlift. Bregman and Lumet's creative differences saw Lumet drop out of the project. Lumet had wanted to make a more political story that focused on blaming the current Presidential administration for the influx of cocaine into the United States, and Bregman disagreed with Lumet's views. Bregman replaced him with Brian De Palma, and hired"
"Those characters included T'Toot, a retired Indian fighter; the Crazy Professor, an inventor and graduate emeritus of UPI (University of Pecan Island); Tante Baseline, owner of the Anse La Butte Swamp Gumbo Factory; Joycie, a female filling station attendant ""who's the world's champion dual-wheel semi-trailer flat-tire fixer""; The Headless Man, who ""sent his head out to be cleaned and it was accidentally sent to the Avery Island Pickle Factory instead"" and lived in the locked cabin of Polycarp's boat; Doctor Rollingstone, ""the hipster swamp doctor who has a transistor radio stuck in his stethoscope""; King Simon, ""the duly elected boss"
"it. Specifically, the reporter, the central character in the film, does not show up until halfway through the novel. Stuck, Dixon considered returning the money she was paid for the assignment. She eventually hit upon the idea to start with the reporter and trace the events backwards. Dixon presented the idea to Hyde who in turn liked it so much that she decided to change the then unpublished novel's plot structure to mirror the film's. In the novel, the character of Eugene Simonet was originally an African-American man named Reuben St. Clair. The role was offered to Denzel Washington, but"
"in Pensacola, Florida, as a naval aviator hangout until it closed later in November 2003. For years, it was traditional for graduating Aviation Officer Candidate School classes to celebrate their commissioning at ""Trader's."" Originally, folk music singer and occasional actor John Denver was signed to play Zack Mayo. But a casting process eventually involved Jeff Bridges, Harry Hamlin, Christopher Reeve, John Travolta, and Richard Gere. Gere eventually beat all the other actors for the part. John Travolta had turned down the role, as he did with ""American Gigolo"" (another Richard Gere hit). The role of Paula was originally given to"
"in the first season of the anthology series ""American Crime Story"", titled """", in which he played lawyer Robert Shapiro. Travolta was in a relationship with actress Diana Hyland, whom he met while filming ""The Boy in the Plastic Bubble"". Travolta married actress Kelly Preston in 1991, and bought a house in Islesboro, Maine. The couple had a son, Jett. Their daughter, Ella Bleu, was born in 2000 and a third child, a son named Benjamin, was born in 2010 in Florida. Travolta and Preston have regularly attended marriage counseling; Travolta has stated that therapy has helped the marriage. In"
"Back, Kotter"" (1975–1979), in which his sister, Ellen, also occasionally appeared (as Arnold Horshack's mother). The show aired on ABC. Travolta had a hit single titled ""Let Her In"", peaking at number 10 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in July 1976. In the next few years, he starred in ""The Boy in the Plastic Bubble"" and two of his most noted screen roles: Tony Manero in ""Saturday Night Fever"" (1977) and Danny Zuko in ""Grease"" (1978). The films were among the most commercially successful pictures of the decade and catapulted Travolta to international stardom. ""Saturday Night Fever"" earned him"
"group, and acted and directed before becoming a high school drama and English teacher. His father was a second-generation Italian American and his mother was Irish American. He attended Shepherd University in West Virginia and graduated from Paterson State College, now William Paterson University, with a degree in special education. Travolta began a singing career in 1978 as a recording artist on Casablanca Records, releasing his eponymous album. The following year he made his acting debut starring in the feature film ""Sunnyside"" for Filmways Productions. He then became a guest star in the 1980s television show ""Simon & Simon"" (episode:"
"have a music teacher Jack Cabe (John Travolta) who is into rock and roll and teaches them the same, much to the irritation of Eugene who wants to fire him but let him after a warning, Jack then tells them to somehow arrange a radio and listen to the show Midnight Rider. Jesse bets with the guys that he would have sex with Sara, but instead falls in love with her. They go to the club where they see people enjoying rock n roll to the hilt and Jesse gets inspired and gives an impressive performance on stage. Jack Cabe"
"who can no longer produce it are useless. The other truth is that everyone in the movie community is searching for heat. John Travolta was the hottest thing ever-ever; only Dustin Hoffman after ""The Graduate"" and ""Midnight Cowboy"" was comparable. Then Travolta made a movie with Lily Tomlin (""Moment by Moment"") and where were his fans? Farrah Fawcett is a year from game shows. This is why we're all so nervous. There's no carry over of affection. It's why nobody can cut their price. You're worth a million dollars or you're unemployed. That's what happened to Elizabeth Taylor and what"
"Sam Coppola Sam Coppola (July 31, 1932 – February 5, 2012) was an American actor. He appeared in almost 70 films, beginning in 1968, but may be best remembered for his role as Dan Fusco, owner of the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, hardware and paint store, in ""Saturday Night Fever"", who gave John Travolta's character sage but salty advice in the classic 1977 film. Later in his career, Coppola made a brief but memorable appearance on ""The Sopranos"" as the idiosyncratic family therapist of Jennifer Melfi. Coppola was a cop in ""Serpico"" (1973), starring Al Pacino, and a detective in ""Fatal"
"1980 John Travolta film ""Urban Cowboy""; and ""If I Have To Eat Someone (It Might As Well Be You)"" for the animated film """", which was sung in the film by rap artist Tone Loc. In addition, Buffett has made several cameo appearances, including in ""Repo Man"", ""Hook"", ""Cobb"", ""Hoot"", ""Congo"", and ""From the Earth to the Moon"". He also made cameo appearances as himself in ""Rancho Deluxe"" (for which he also wrote the music) and in ""FM"". He made a guest appearance in the season two of ""Hawaii Five-0"" on CBS in 2011. Buffett reportedly was offered a cameo"
"initially to be titled ""McGill"" after its lead character. As with several ITC productions, the series was to use an American star in an attempt to boost the show's sales in the US. An early choice was Jack Lord, but the part of McGill eventually went to Richard Bradford, a method actor who was spotted after appearing opposite Marlon Brando in the 1966 movie ""The Chase"". The series was created by Richard Harris and Dennis Spooner. Neither writer had any further involvement with the series—Spooner was mostly involved with producing his own series, ""The Champions""—and the lead character changed somewhat"
"since starred in films such as ""Face/Off"", ""Swordfish"", ""Wild Hogs"", and ""Hairspray"". John Travolta filmography The filmography of John Joseph Travolta includes the year the film was/will be released, the name of his character, and other related notes. There is also a list of his appearances on TV series and documentaries, as well as music. Travolta first became well known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series ""Welcome Back, Kotter"" (1975–1979) and starring in the box office successes ""Saturday Night Fever"" and ""Grease"". Although his acting career declined through the 1980s, Travolta also enjoyed a resurgence in the"